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Geek

Wrestling with a new blog template

I’m wrestling with a new blog template at the moment. It’s kind of mostly working…ish, but there are still a few little issues, such as the main content doesn’t line up with the page header quite right. But once the quirks have been fixed, the site should look better, particularly on mobile devices such as  ... [More]

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Consumerism

January Calendar shopping – some good ones left if you hunt around a bit

It’s about this time of year that I often go calendar shopping. I generally like to have a calendar hanging in the kitchen, and another in the toilet. Sometimes I’ll get given them at Christmas, of course — for last year I was given two excellent ones — the Melbourne Train Station calendar, and another  ... [More]

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transport

Good news – they quietly fixed a #Myki problem. Touch-on with zero balance now possible.

Happy new year. A few months ago I wrote that allowing a Myki touch-on with a zero balance would bring numerous benefits. Well in the brand shiny new 2014 PTV Fares And Ticketing Manual appears a small but important change. Unlike the doom and gloom of fare rises, this is a positive. Yep, you guessed  ... [More]